It was a usual busy day. Jumping out of bed, showering, getting the kids ready for school while getting ready for work at the same time. When you arrive at work you have a mess of paperwork left from the day before, you have a whole slew of e-mails and your phone is already showing three messages. During your lunch hour your have to run to the post office, pick up dry cleaning, and still find time to grab a quick, and I mean quick bite.

As your work day comes to an end you start to schedule your evening in your head, stop at the grocery store, get dinner started, do some laundry and help with homework, all before you drop to bed just to have to start all over the next day.

Every day we become more forgetful, we look for shortcuts and try to find a moment, just a moment of peace. We tried to cram too much into too little time. Very few women today lead simple lives. Most of us are juggling multiple roles with home, work, family, friends and volunteer activities.

There's nothing wrong with living full, productive lives, and taking on new challenges. Sometimes things can get out of hand.

There are different kinds of busy:

There are the things that keep us busy just to get through each day. This kind of busy is healthy. Days that are filled with joy and meaning are days that are filled with activity, rest and play.

Then we have the chores we add to the list that are not completely necessary. Projects that we do, errands and volunteer work.

Then there is the kind of busy that controls your life, this the kind that can really burn you out. When you are no longer living or enjoying your life, when your lifestyle is controlling you rather than you controlling it, then you know you have a problem. Some experts call this kind of stress and anxiety